Trialist Duo Make An Impression
By Mark Heys October 17 2006
Chinese youngsters Yang Changpeng and Zhou Liaota have made a good impression during their early weeks at the Bolton Wanderers youth academy.
Chinese youngsters Yang Changpeng and Zhou Liaota have made a good impression during their early weeks at the Bolton Wanderers youth academy.
The two Wuhan teenagers where brought over to England for a three week trial last week and Wanderers manager Sam Allardyce has given a "so far, so good" verdict on the duo.
One source of concern for the Bolton boss is the way that the two players will settle into the English culture after travelling thousands of miles from their homeland.
Allardyce feels that this is an area that needs careful handling and has called upon the coaches to issue a slow integration process between the Chinese pair and the rest of Bolton's academy players.
"We need to make sure where they are staying is okay, they get used to the time differences and then get bed in slowly with the Academy players and then we will see where we go from there," Allardyce told Sky Sports News.
"That (settling in), apparently, has gone very smoothly and from my own point of view I have only seen them on a couple of training sessions.
"Chris (Sulley, Academy director) is impressed with them, he is the one who asked the club over there for their two best players and they have recommended these two and we are taking a look."
Allardyce is hoping that the relationship with Wuhan will bear fruit over a number of years, whether it be from a commercial view or a player exchange perspective but he has stressed not to expect too much, too soon.
"I think it would be extremely fortunate if these were good enough, we are hoping that is the case but we will wait and see over the next month, If we are that lucky it would be fantastic, but what we want to do is grow the relationship over a period of time.
"We want to create a better development for them with the expertise here and by them visiting us and us visiting them. Hopefully at the end of that, somewhere along the line, a player will arrive who is good enough to play in Bolton Wanderers' first team."
Allardyce expects there to be some problems in future recruitment as it is often difficult to bring Asian players over to Europe because of red tape restrictions as well as get those players accustomed to the English way of life.
"There are some big difficulties to overcome, the work permit situation in this country is the biggest difficultly and then there are the differences in culture," he added. The talent is undoubtedly there, a huge population which plays professional football and there is a desire there."
One source of concern for the Bolton boss is the way that the two players will settle into the English culture after travelling thousands of miles from their homeland.
Allardyce feels that this is an area that needs careful handling and has called upon the coaches to issue a slow integration process between the Chinese pair and the rest of Bolton's academy players.
"We need to make sure where they are staying is okay, they get used to the time differences and then get bed in slowly with the Academy players and then we will see where we go from there," Allardyce told Sky Sports News.
"That (settling in), apparently, has gone very smoothly and from my own point of view I have only seen them on a couple of training sessions.
"Chris (Sulley, Academy director) is impressed with them, he is the one who asked the club over there for their two best players and they have recommended these two and we are taking a look."
Allardyce is hoping that the relationship with Wuhan will bear fruit over a number of years, whether it be from a commercial view or a player exchange perspective but he has stressed not to expect too much, too soon.
"I think it would be extremely fortunate if these were good enough, we are hoping that is the case but we will wait and see over the next month, If we are that lucky it would be fantastic, but what we want to do is grow the relationship over a period of time.
"We want to create a better development for them with the expertise here and by them visiting us and us visiting them. Hopefully at the end of that, somewhere along the line, a player will arrive who is good enough to play in Bolton Wanderers' first team."
Allardyce expects there to be some problems in future recruitment as it is often difficult to bring Asian players over to Europe because of red tape restrictions as well as get those players accustomed to the English way of life.
"There are some big difficulties to overcome, the work permit situation in this country is the biggest difficultly and then there are the differences in culture," he added. The talent is undoubtedly there, a huge population which plays professional football and there is a desire there."
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